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Twenty-two hundred people, most of whom I could see from my seat, were gathered on the slopes above the flat trough of the valley helow, where the orchestra was show- ing signs of heing ready to hegin. Even before it started to play, I began to com- prehend Professor Scharoun's magnifi- cent vision-first the music, then the audience around the mUSIC, and, finally, the landscape around the audience. The f hall has no boxes, and, in a sense, it rep- I resents architectural democracy at its best. To be sure, some seats are more expensive than others, but the distinc- tions among them are as diverse as they are an10ng the people occupying them, and even the cheapest seats, high up, are only a hundred and fifteen feet awaJ from the cond l..lctor. All the seats are above the level of the orchestra, so the whole audIence can see the musicians, and måny can watch the conductor's fact' as well. (The wIfe of a very falTIous conductor ren1arked to me later, "Strange, but in that hall one becomes so 'lbsorbed in the musicians that one forgets to look at the conductor.") \Vhen the orchestra began to play, I dis- COVL rLd thåt Professor Scharoun had cllso achieved the mIracle of almost flaw- less acoustics. The sound seemed to C0111e froill everywhere at once-warm and lyrical, in contrast to the dry, sharp sound so characteristic of many of the new concert ha11s. In the PhilharlTIonIe, one can clearly discern the single instru- mental voices and the various instru- n1ental groups, and the whole ènsemhle is heautifully hlended. rrhe reverhera- tion time of the ha1] is approximately 2.2 seconds, which is rather long for people whose failliliarity with music derives from high-fidelity recordings but is per- fect for the sweeping, romantIc sound that distinguishes the Berlin Philhar- monic under it permanent director, Herhel t von Karajan. 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